everybody
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"It's a bit like when Roger Bannister broke four minutes for the mile. Once he'd done it everybody did it because you see what's possible," Boxer-Cahill, who is now 69 years old, told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Actually, this also goes for everybody else as well.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“There’s something that’s really important that everybody hears from Anthropic, and I think the president has said this many, many times: The United States needs to stay in the lead on AI,” Heck said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“If I called an emergency session today and I brought everybody in the house and said, ‘Let’s regulate AI,’ nobody in the room knows yet what that should look like.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Panic rose, and suddenly, she was back in front of the class; everybody was staring at her, and she was tongue-tied.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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